Seeking to burnish his foreign policy credentials, Trump released a letter of endorsement signed by 88 retired generals and admirals, which Clinton later dismissed.
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The Clinton campaign says it will make a “five figure” TV ad buy in Georgia, less than 1 percent of pro-Clinton buys nationwide.
Meanwhile, Clintons campaign released a new television ad entitled, Sacrifice, that shows military veterans watching some of the NY businessmans more provocative statements. John McCain, a POW in Vietnam, is “not a war hero”.
The conflicting messages come as the candidates prepare to court voters in Southern states with significant veteran populations.
The dueling addresses occurred as the focus of the US battle for the White House shifted to national security virtually two months before the November 8 presidential election, with both Clinton and Trump set to participate in a televised forum on Wednesday hosted by a veteran’s group.
Hillary Clinton, sensing the urgency of a presidential campaign entering its home stretch, assailed Donald Trump on multiple fronts on Tuesday, including hiding his taxes, as she looked to generate momentum after polls showed a dead heat.
Today, Trump hit the battleground states of North Carolina and Virginia.
She endorsed Clinton in July after Trump attacked the Muslim parents of an Army captain who was killed in Iraq.
They noted early voting begins in many states this month, and Clinton relishes going after Trump on the topic because she feels like she knows it well and he doesn’t.
Clinton mentioned his criticism of Gold Star father Khizr Khan, which drew condemnation around the time of the Democratic Convention, exclaiming, “A man who is so wrong about our veterans isn’t right to serve as our commander-in-chief”.
Clinton is promoting a pathway to citizenship for numerous 11 million people living in the shadows, while Trump wants to curtail immigration and require that those who wish to gain legalised status must leave the country first. He focused on his proposed border wall plan in a Tuesday interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America”.
Trump made a last minute trip to Mexico last week to meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto. Just last week in a few hours, he managed to turn his trip to Mexico into an embarrassing worldwide incident.
“But unlike Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has experience in actual governance, a record of service and a willingness to delve into real policy”, the editorial continued.
“I take classification seriously”, she said.
“She’s a disaster in so many different ways, folks”, he said.
Clinton’s campaign says the first lady will rally voters behind the former secretary of state during a September 16 event in Northern Virginia.
“We are going to have to take those threats and attacks seriously”, Clinton told reporters travelling with her from OH to IL.
“People who have nothing to hide don’t smash phones with hammers”.
She said Russian President Vladimir Putin appears “quite satisfied with himself” and said Trump “has generally parroted what is a Putin-Kremlin line”. “People who have nothing to hide don’t bleach – nobody’s even ever heard of it – their emails, or destroy evidence to keep it from being publicly archived as required under federal law”, Trump said, pointing to Clinton aides’ use of a software named BleachBit to expunge traces of deleted emails.
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“I believe I´m the best person for this job and I believe they´re going to keep coming after me”, Clinton told reporters.
